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CITY OF ROSEVILLE
<br />STORM WATER ILLICIT DISCHARGE AND CONNECTIONS ORDINANCE
<br />803.03: STORM WATER ILLICIT DISCHARGE AND CONNECTIONS
<br />A. Purpose:
<br />The purpose of this ordinance is to provide for the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens
<br />of the City of Roseville through the regulation of non-storm water discharges to the storm drainage
<br />system to the maximum extent practicable as required by federal and state law. This ordinance
<br />establishes methods for controlling the introduction of pollutants into the municipal separate storm
<br />sewer system (MS4) in order to comply with requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge
<br />Elimination System (NPDES) permit process. The objectives of this ordinance are:
<br />1. To regulate the contribution of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) by
<br />storm water discharges by any user
<br />2. To prohibit Illicit Connections and Discharges to the municipal separate storm sewer system
<br />3. To establish legal authority to carry out all inspection, surveillance and monitoring procedures
<br />necessary to ensure compliance with this ordinance
<br />B. Definitions:
<br />For the purposes of this ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall
<br />have the meaning stated below.
<br />1. BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP): Erosion and sediment control and water quality
<br />management practices that are the most effective and practicable means of controlling, preventing, and
<br />minimizing the degradation of surface water, including construction-phasing, minimizing the length of
<br />time soil areas are exposed, prohibitions, and other management practices published by state or
<br />designated area-wide planning agencies.
<br />2. DISCHARGE: Adding, introducing, releasing, leaking, spilling, casting, throwing, or emitting any
<br />pollutant, or placing any pollutant in a location where it is likely to pollute waters of the state.
<br />3. EROSION: any process that wears away the surface of the land by the action of water, wind, ice, or
<br />gravity. Erosion can be accelerated by the activities of man and nature.
<br />4. GROUNDWATER: Water contained below the surface of the earth in the saturated zone including,
<br />without limitation, all waters whether under conned, unconfined, or perched conditions, in near
<br />surface unconsolidated sediment or regolith, or in rock formations deeper underground.
<br />5. ILLEGAL DISCHARGE: Any direct or indirect non-storm water discharge to the storm drain system,
<br />except as exempted in this chapter.
<br />6. ILLICIT CONNECTION: Either of the following:
<br />(i) Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to
<br />enter the storm drain system (including any non-storm water discharge) including sewage, process
<br />wastewater, and wash water and any connections to the storm drain system from indoor drains and
<br />sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or
<br />approved by an authorized enforcement agency; or,
<br />(ii) Any drain or conveyance connected from a residential, commercial or industrial land use to the
<br />storm drain system which has not been documented in plans, maps, or equivalent records and
<br />approved by an authorized enforcement agency.
<br />7. ILLICIT DISCHARGE: Any direct or indirect non-storm water discharge to the storm sewer system,
<br />except as exempted in this chapter.
<br />8. MPCA: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
<br />9. MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4): The system of conveyances
<br />(including sidewalks, roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
<br />ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) owned and operated by the City and designed or used
<br />for collecting or conveying storm water, and which is not used for collecting or conveying sewage.
<br />10. NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES): The national
<br />program for issuing, modifying, revoking, and reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing
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